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Emilio Estevez

Both a member of Hollywood royalty and the Brat Pack, Emilio Estevez had the odds (and the press) against him when it came to forging a long-term career in show business. Yet, though he did become the butt of many jokes, Estevez has had the last laugh: he grew up into a prolific, if not acclaimed, actor/writer/director who managed to sidestep the celebrity pratfalls that befell his family and his Brat Pack colleagues.Born in New York on May 12, 1962, Estevez is the eldest son of actor Martin Sheen (formerly known as Ramon Estevez) and his wife, Janet. He grew up on Manhattan's Upper West Side with his two younger brothers, Ramon and Charlie, and his younger sister, Renée. Though Estevez started attending school in the New York public-school system, he transferred to a prestigious private academy once his father's career blossomed. In 1968, after Sheen landed a starring role in Catch-22 (1970), the family moved west to Malibu, CA. There, the young Estevez began writing short stories and poems. By the time he turned eight, he had already submitted a script to Rod Serling's Night Gallery television series (it was, unfortunately, rejected).When Estevez was 11, his father bought the family a portable movie camera. Estevez, his brother Charlie, and their friends, Sean and Chris Penn, and Chad and Rob Lowe, used it to make short films, which Estevez would often write. He then began acting in all the junior-high-school plays, including The Dumb Waiter, Hello Out There, and Bye, Bye, Birdie. While accompanying his father to the Philippine set of Francis Ford Coppola's Apocalypse Now (1979), Estevez got his first professional acting role as a messenger boy in the film. His scene, however, did not make the picture's final cut. After returning home to attend Santa Monica High School, Estevez grew interested in sports and did not become involved with the drama department until his senior year. Uninspired by the usual high-school productions, he wrote an original play and drafted Sean Penn to direct it. Titled Echoes of an Era, the story was based on the life of a Vietnam vet whom Estevez met while staying in the Philippines. Around the same time, he landed his first professional stage role opposite his father in Mr. Roberts at the Burt Reynolds Dinner Theater in Jupiter, FL.Estevez made his small-screen debut right after graduating from high school. He appeared in the ABC Afterschool Special Seventeen Going on Nowhere (1980) before joining his father in the cast of To Climb a Mountain (1981), an installment of the religious television series Insight. In 1981, after returning from India where he served as his father's stand-in during the taping of Gandhi (1982), Estevez landed his first feature-film role opposite Matt Dillon in Tex (1982). The film marked the first of three adaptations of S.E. Hinton's books in which Estevez would appear. A year later, he starred in Francis Ford Coppola's unforgettable adaptation of Hinton's novel The Outsiders (1983), with Dillon, Patrick Swayze, Tom Cruise, Rob Lowe, C. Thomas Howell, and Ralph Macchio.By 1983, Estevez found himself on the short list of young actors. Oliver Stone asked him to star in his Academy Award-winning Vietnam film Platoon (1986), but the director could not finance the project in time (Estevez's brother, Charlie, took the role five years later). Instead, Estevez decided to play a punk rocker-turned-car repossessor in Alex Cox's Repo Man (1984). Co-executive produced by former Monkee Mike Nesmith, the wacky comedy also starred cult favorite Harry Dean Stanton and was a lasting underground hit. Estevez next gave a successful reading for John Hughes' The Breakfast Club (1985), a film about five very different high-school kids who are forced to spend a Saturday together in detention. Judd Nelson, Anthony Michael Hall, Molly Ringwald, and Ally Sheedy rounded out the cast in what turned out to be the quintessential teen-angst film of the '80s.On the set of The Breakfast Club, Estevez ref

NoI mean I really can't you moron!!! I don't know how to skate! (takes a hard Slap Shot)

Fulton Reed:

NoI mean I really can't you moron!!! I don't know how to skate!

Gordon Bombay:

Whoa. Is that all that's stopping ya?

Gordon Bombay:

Jesse that's not pride. Sure when Dwayne roped that big oof, we cheered. but guys I've been there. I know how you feel. I wanted to cream that jerk that busted my knee when I played in the minors. and I really really wanted to go after Stanton for that cheap shot. But you know what? my knee will heal. But if I become something I'm not, if I sink to their level, then I've lost more than my knee. We're not goons, we're not bullies and no matter what other people say or do, we have to be ourselves.

Andrew Clark:

We're all bizarre, some of us are just better at hiding it.

Andrew Clark:

We're all pretty bizarre. Some of us are just better at hiding it, that's all.

Two Bit: [near tears] No wonder he hates your guts. You don't even care about him, you damn drunk. You go to hell. Go straight to hell.

Two-Bit Matthews:

Shoot, this house ain't dirty. You ought to see my house.

Ponyboy Curtis:

I have and if you had the sense of a billy goat, you'd clean your house up 'stead of bummin' 'round ours.

Two-Bit Matthews:

Shoot kid, if I did that, my mom would die of shock.

Andrew Clark:

Just me. Just you and me. Two hits. Me hitting you. You hitting the floor. Anytime you're ready, pal.

Andrew Clark:

Yo wastoid, you're not gonna blaze up in here.

Andrew Clark:

If I lose my temper you're totalled, man.

Andrew Clark:

You ask me one more question and I'm beating the shit out of you.

John Bender:

Hey, Sporto! Do you get along with YOUR parents?

Andrew Clark:

If I say yes, then I'm an idiot, right?

John Bender:

You're an idiot anyway! But if you say that you get along with your parents, then you're a liar too.

Andrew Clark:

Speak for yourself.

John Bender:

You really think I'd speak for you? I don't even know your language!

Brian Johnson:

Dear Mr. Vernon, we accept the fact that we had to sacrifice a whole Saturday in detention for whatever it was we did wrong. What we did *was* wrong. But we think you're crazy to make an essay telling you who we think we are. You see us as you want to see us... In the simplest terms, in the most convenient definitions. But what we found out is that each one of us is a brain...

Andrew Clark:

...and an athlete...

Allison Reynolds:

...and a basket case...

Claire Standish:

...a princess...

John Bender:

...and a criminal...

Brian Johnson:

Does that answer your question?... Sincerely yours, the Breakfast Club.

William H. Bonney/"Billy the Kid":

Reap it Murphy, you son of bitch.

William H. Bonney/"Billy the Kid":

I like these odds!

Daniel:

You don't choose a life Dad. You live one.

Brian Johnson:

We accept the fact that we had to sacrifice a whole saturday for whatever we did wrong, but we think you're crazy to make us write an essay telling you who we think we are. You see us as you want to see us. In the simplest terms, the most convenient definitions but what we found out that each one of us is a brain...

Brian Johnson:

Dear Mr. Vernon, we accept the fact that we had to sacrifice a whole Saturday in detention for whatever it was that we did wrong. What we did was wrong. But we think you're crazy to make us write this essay telling you who we think we are. What do you care? You see us as you want to see us... in the simplest terms and the most convenient definitions. You see us as a brain..

Andrew Clark:

...and an athlete...

Andrew Clark:

...and an athlete.

Allison Reynolds:

...and a basketcase...

Allison Reynolds:

...and a basket case.

Claire Standish:

...a princess...

Claire Standish:

...a princess.

John Bender:

...and a criminal.

Brian Johnson:

Does that answer your question? Sincerely yours, the Breakfast Club.

Two-Bit Matthews:

You guys wanna give me a push start?

Ponyboy Curtis:

Not really, but we will.

Otto Maddox:

(to his mother, which tells him to eat off a plate so he can enjoy the meal more) Couldn't enjoy it any more, Mom. Mm, mm, mmm.

Two-Bit Matthews:

(talking about Ponyboy's new hair)..Look at the blonde-headed monkey!

Two-Bit Matthews:

[talking about Ponyboy's new hair] Look at the blonde-headed monkey!

John Bender:

I figure all I need is a lobotomy and some tights.

Brian Johnson:

You wear tights?

Andrew Clark:

No. I wear the required uniform.

Brian Johnson:

Tights.

Andrew Clark:

Shut up.

Bud:

I know a life of crime has led me to this sorry fate, and yet, I blame society. Society made me what I am.